Newscast: Monday, May 14, 2012, 7:34 a.m.

Worries about health effects, privacy and cost
are fueling growing opposition to wireless, digital "smart meters"
that utilities around the country are installing on homes and businesses and
touting as key energy conservation and grid reliability tools. Brightly painted
Adirondack chairs began popping up around the village
of Morrisville this month, inviting
shoppers and pedestrians to stop and sit for a while. Officials from the
Nuclear Regulatory Commission will be in Brattleboro
later this month to talk about their annual safety assessment of the Vermont
Yankee nuclear plant. The New Hampshire Senate is considering requiring welfare
recipients and applicants to go through a new verification check to detect
fraud.